This book has long been needed ... [A] successful selection of structural, burial, and epigraphic evidence that serves to illustrate a chronological narrative of the development of Londinium. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
[T]his book will become the go-to book for researching Roman London, to anchor and orientate, and to point toward the archives and publications ... it is the essential collation of recent research that London has been crying out for. As a biography, we see Londinium's birth and questionable parentage, its troubled Boudican infancy, then its maturity, and finally its economic wobbles as age sets in. * American Journal of Archaeology *
An impressive overview of present thought ... This briskly written synthesis, packed with helpful plans, is a great overview of the Roman town, and a handy launchpad for further reading about specific sites. * Current Archaeology *
The book has the feel of an intelligent directory, and will surely be on the shelves of everyone remotely engaged with London's archaeology. * British Archaeology *
Well illustrated with helpful chapter summaries ... particularly valuable is the author's ability to cross traditional (and restricting) boundaries and explore the archaeology in terms of its social, commercial, political and religious significance ... All in all an essential book for anyone studying, researching or just enjoying Roman Britain, English and Roman history, Roman archaeology or urban studies. * Classics for All *
There has clearly been a significant amount of intensive research and thorough reading for this book ... The detailed descriptions of the form, location and chronology of the buildings of Londinium during the period AD 70-120 is particularly notable ... [A] detailed piece of work which has clearly involved much study. * European Journal of Archaeology *
The virtue of Hingley's book is that it brings together a vast quantity of information ... Hingley is to be congratulated: not for writing the biography of Londinium, but for posing the right questions and, hopefully, for enabling other authors and excavators to stand on his shoulders, providing them with a clearer view from the data mountain. * Minerva *
An extraordinary achievement. Richard Hingley guides us expertly through the remains of Roman Londinium, throwing light into the archaeological shadows. This is the benchmark and springboard for any future study. * Michael Shanks, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Stanford University, USA *
Londinium: A Biography is a substantial achievement and an excellent guide to the city's streets, buildings, cemeteries and watercourses. It highlights the value and scope of the hard work being done by the city's archaeologists and demonstrates both the feasibility and potential of ambitious synthetic work on the resulting data ... an invaluable aid to anyone approaching these tasks. * Brittania *
This book deserves to be read with attention: beyond the scholarly information it provides and which makes London one of the best-known Roman agglomerations in the West today ... it offers a remarkable explanatory model of the development of an ancient city, far removed from the worn out patterns that still too often structure our thinking ... This brilliant work should therefore appear in all libraries interested in Roman Antiquity. * Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bloomsbury Translation) *
